Narenda Modi in Mumbai lashes out on PM and Pakistan
Narendra Modi in Mumbai lashes out on PM and Pakistan
Mumbai, DeshGujarat, 28 November, 2008
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited Mumbai on Friday morning to pay respect to senior police officers who were killed fighting with the terrorists on Wednesday and to show support to the security forces.
Modi departed from Ahmedabad at 6:30 am and visited Anti Terrorism Squad(ATS) Chief Hemant Karkare’s house at around 8.00 in morning. Modi also visited Encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar’s house, JJ Hospital and Oberoi Hotel . Modi wanted to go near the Oberoi Trident hotel in a car, to take stock of the situation but security agencies denied him a permission to do so.
Addressing media outside the terrorist attacked Oberoi Hotel Modi said “The terror strikes in Mumbai is an attack not only on Mumbai but on the whole nation, on the sovereignty and self respect of the nation. The people of India should determine to root out the terrorism menace. The country had pinned a lot of hope on the Prime Minister but his address was disappointing. He should urgently convene a meeting of Chief Ministers to discuss issues of coastal security. I am here in Mumbai today, I wanted to come to Mumbai yesterday but the Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister requested me not to come yesterday. In this time of sorrow, I can’s stop myself and therefore I have come. I have come upto the Hotel, I requested the police to permit me to take a round in the hotel but I was denied permission but I wished I could congratulate the Army, Police and Fire brigade jawans state away in the field.”
“Pakistan has violated the UN convention on the use of land and sea routes for launch of terror strikes against India.This is for the first time Pakistan has allowed use of sea routes to further terrorism against India,” Modi said.
“Terrorists have targeted US, British and Israeli citizens and made Mumbai a place that has been hit by international terrorism,” He said.
“One-year ago I had raised the issue in the national security meet that Pakistan’s maritime police not only arrests Indian fishermen who would stray in their territory but would also confiscate their boats. Earlier the Pakistan authorities would return their boats but off late they have stopped doing so. And these boats would be misused by them against the Indian interest,”Modi said.
Modi announced a sum of Rs one crore for the kin of martyred jawans, who were killed fighting valiantly in the Mumbai attacks.
November 28th, 2008 at 8:23 am
I think, that was not the right time to talk politics.
November 28th, 2008 at 9:22 am
નરેન્દ્ર મોદી ની મર્દાન્ગી ને સલામ છે
November 28th, 2008 at 9:26 am
This is the best time to talk about the failed policies of the gutless Congress Government, who repealed the POTA anti-terrorist law. Under the gutless Congress and Shivraj Patil, we have seen Afzal Guru not being executed and an increase in terrorist attacks.
Inflation is sky-high under Congress. Privatization of government owned corrupt companies has completely stopped since Congress won the general election. Under the BJP, more companies were privatized in India’s history than any other government.
BJP and Vajpayee started building 4-lane national highways and privatized the mobile phone sector, which we all enjoy. And the BJP began the process of privatizing the 3rd class Delhi and Mumbai airports to turn them into world class airports. What did Congress do? Ignore terrorism and try to increase the dalit quota in schools?
November 28th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Why did he visit Hemant Karkare’s house. This Karkare had arrested, interrogated Hindu female Sadhvi unfairly by orders of his political masters.
Why did not Modi visit Salaskar’s house?
Should not Modi limit himself to Gujarat? Only national leaders visited Mumbai and they too visited up to hospital.
Why Modi went to Oberoi?
Is he a journalist? Or is he a Commando?
November 28th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Dear Amit,
Modi is national leader. He is more popular than any other so called national leader. I wonder is there still any doubt in someone’s mind that he is not a national leader?
It is good and welcome thing that Modi cared to visit the event. Otherwise he could also be a just another leader to chew TV visuals like the other leaders. But we should apreciate that he went to the front to back our security force.
and Mr. Alpesh,
This is only the right time to say what went wrong and what is going on wrongfully.
If we don’t talk such issues now then when?
There is no politics but concerns that Mr. Modi expressed on right and relevant issues.
Gujarat’s coastal security plans are not approved by central government for last several years. If Modi doesn’t speak these issues at this time then when? Don’t forget that Gujarat is a coastal state touching to Pakistan. As a Gujarat Chief Minister Modi is the most worried person seeing new trend of terrorism operations launched via coastal area. He has every right to do everything that can pressure central government to act for approval of Gujarat’s coastal security plans.
November 28th, 2008 at 11:14 am
I completely agree with Chintan and Maneesh. Guys one person is working hard to put india in developed country list and fighting against terrerisom also. Not even single UPA leader can think of like this(That is out of their scope) . He came to mumbai and visited affected place and also giving moral support to army as well as police. Listen our PM’s speech it looks like no anger against terrerisom or looks like they do nt have guts to fight. One more ridiculous thing is that it looks like they just read same script which was prepared before 20 years.We dont want this type of leaders.
Amit, it is not necessory that journalist or Commando should visit affected place. Come out from this type of this type of thinking. Mr.Modi is C.M of gujarat so it does not mean that he should limit himself to gujarat. There is no limitation mentioned. If something wrong happened to gujarat then whole UPA/congress leader will start talking abt gujarat and come to gujarat to cheat people. What you would say for this???
Mr.Modi is not like other leader who increase trouble for affected person but he is there to help those persons. And why not he should speak against UPA goverment. UPA govt had not done anything good for this nation. Just increased quota and made lows weaken.
Now guys it’s time to throw these useless junk UPA/Congress govt and definately BJP will to come power so that Inida can fight agianst terrerisom, can save innocent people and start doing postivie things.
Thanks
-P.P
November 28th, 2008 at 11:20 am
SEE THIS IS RIGHT TIME TO SPEAK SOMETHING BECAUSE AFTER TWO THREE DAYS INDIAN FORGET EVEYTHING,EVENTHOGH GUJARAT IS ATTECH WITH PAKISTAN AND 33% COSTEL AREA OF INDIA MANMOHAN SINGH INTENSLY AVOID MODIS GUJCOC DEMAND,THEY ARE PLAYING POLITICS SINCE LAST ONE YEAR,AFTER THIS BLAST HE REPETATIVELY SAID NO REQUIREMENT OF ANOTHER LAW WE HAVE SUFFICENT LAWS ARE AVILABLE.SEE MENTALITY!MODIJI ANNOUNCE 1 CR RS TO POLICE ,JAWANS AND ATS PERSON THATS AGOOD CORAGE.FORGET SADHVI PRAGNA CASE TIME BEAING,HEMANT,VIJAY HAVE LOSE THEIR LIFE AGAINST ATAKWADI,SO THEY ARE REALLY HERO,NOTHING WRONG TOMEET THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS.THEIR IS NO POLITICAL MILAGE IN THIS EPISODE.
November 28th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Modi was wrong this time, and it’s so sad that he is just trying to gain some political attention even this time. This is the time when all the political parties or leaders need to stand together because terrorist attack was happened when there was BJP’s Gvt. and this time it’s Congress. So they all know that they all are not capable enough to tackle terrorist attack single handly, but they can at least fight together against terrorism. It’s very unfortunate that INDIA is lacking of leaders who has political will to fight terrorism instead everyone wants their votes either its BJP or Congress or others. We are missing leaders like Sardar Patel, Indira Gandhi.
Everybody knows that our PM statement was unacceptable and. He was even afraid to speak Pakistan name in his speech. Central Gvt is totally fail to stop terrorism. But then also as an Indian Citizen it is our responsibility to be united against this kind of attack.
We all wish that Indian Gvt should atleast attack POK and demolish all the terrorist camps running under ISI instead of following peace procedure.
November 28th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Friends read this and clear your doubts
Narendra Modi is correct Mr.Vilasarao,PM’s address was disappointing
http://deshgujarat.com/2008/11/28/narendra-modi-is-correct-mrvilasaraopms-address-was-disappointing/
November 28th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I’m atheist but I support Modi because he has respect for peaceful people of all belief systems. Muslim terrorists are diggin their own grave because they do not realize the fury of Indias dormant right wing tendancies.
November 28th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
i,think this is right time to say about national security.this is not politics.whatever modiji pridict and said
becomes true.upa govt.minister mr.jaiswal now says that terrorism is proxy war.the whole nation stand to
gather.what happened when there were multiple blasts in a’bad?all upa and lallu,paswan,mulayam,amarsingh,
shankersinh and all congressi palyed politics on it.where are those anti-nation politician,who wanted
investigation on battala house encounter?all the people of india plck out these nonsence politician,ngos
and throw them out like a thrash.
whatever happened and happens ,is not a job of a day.it took months.how did they bring rocket launcher?
how did they piled up granades?how did they pileup rdx?there must be involvements of somany local people.
even some of the corrupt officers,officials involved in scandal.you know what they did.they did sex with
their mother and sisters.they ought to be plucked out and hanged.
let me tell you one thing,modi is not only c.m.he is only the one recognised national and international leader.
he is only the strongest and iron-will leader in indian politics.in the herd of sheep,he is only the lion.
when he declared late prize to 20-20,winners,he was criticised for no reason.now he is the first person who
declared 0ne carore for jawans who became martyared in this war.and visited their families.
as far as the country,give important to bolly-wood,cricketers,bapus,gurus,babas,can,t show bravery.
my heart goes-out to the families of police,jawans,commandos,fire-brigades,and many who kept the prestige
of country errect.my thanks to all the drs,hospital staff, and all the people who came out and regardless of
their lives helped the victims and serveed wounded.indian people spirit always keep country going in any
difiicult situations.
and last ,untill we have upa,lallu,mulayam,amarsingh,paswan,congressi the tattus of sonia,leftist,karunanidhi,
in indian politics and power,india has to go through these kinds of episodes freequnt and all the times.
time to be united regardlee,religion,caste,region,tribes,and throw these leaders.
November 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Ek Dhakka aur do congess ko ukhad do!!!
November 28th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
NSG, Army, ATS & fire brigade personal are real heros at this moment. None of these ministers will be able to achieve that respacts; which NSGs has achieved by sacrificing their life for the country. These brave cammandos are securing our countries most powerful decision makers (probabely the most corrupt too); are these ministers are worth being protected? Are our NSGs are so cheap that they can be used as fashion statement by ministers? almost all ministers want 4 of them.
Coming to the point, I think this is best opportunity to be united as a nation; let’s leave behind all defferences. This is the time to think about our most wonderful & colorful society, our families and our great mother nation india. If we miss this chance; history will never forgive us. Anti-india elements are doing their best; let’s do our best.
Once Vjapayeji said, “Baat ye nahi hai ki mera kya hoga; ya aapaka kya hoga – bat ye hai ki desh ka kya hoga”. We are a great democracy, people have right to vote. Why do not we?
If we think policies to be changed – and it is possible by changing the government – then change the government by democratic means. But we are so selfish that we may not go to vote at the cost South Africa – west indies cricket match. I feel every citizen should be politically mature & aware, if few of them are not then let’s us spread awarness.
I must say modiji was right but I wish he would have selected batter time too.
At last, I wish NSGs can nullify terrorists as soon as they can so political stage can set open for all “natak mandali”. I am sure all parties will participate in this great indian laughter challange. jai hind…..
November 29th, 2008 at 1:02 am
HERE IS A LEADER WHO DOES NOT NEED OUR ADVISE TO RUN HIS LEADERSHIP,TO CLEAN CORRUPTION AND MAKE A STATE SHINE. WHY DO WE THINK HE NEEDS OUR ADVISE IN DOING WHAT HE THINKS IS RIGHT IN HIS POSITION IN PARTICULAR SITUATION. HE IS A LEADER WHO SEES FAR AHEAD,SEES OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL AS TROUBLES,WARNS PEOPLE IN AUTHORITY TO TAKE ACTION,TAKES ACTIONS THAT ARE IN HIS CONTROL AND I THINK SOMETIME IT MUST BE LIKE TALKING TO A STONE WALL. BUT WHAT I ADMIRE MOST ABOUT HIM IS HIS WAY OF RESPECTING ANY PERSON INCLUDING OPPONENT AS A HUMAN OR AN INDIAN. MAY BE HE HAD DIFFERENCES OF OPINION WITH MR.KARKARE BUT HE WENT TO PAY RESPECT FOR THE HERO WHO LOST HIS LIFE FIGHTING TERRORISM. THIS IS HIS GREATNESS. IF WE ALL START THINKING LIKE INDIANS,UNITE LIKE INDIANS,AND RESPECT EACH OTHER LIKE INDIANS AND FORGET THE WALLS THAT DEVIDE US THEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND HIM BETTER. OUR NARROW MINDED AND LOOKING AT OTHER PERSONS FAULTS INSTEAD OF STRENGTHS HAVE DEVIDED US. WE HAVE THE LARGEST POPULATION IN THE WORLD IF WE ALL UNITE AND SUPPORT OUR LEADERS FOR SFETY AND SECURITY THEN I THINK NO ENEMY HAS POWER TO FIGHT OR KILL INNOCENT INDIANS. A GOOD LEADER DOES NEED TO ASSESS SITUATION HIMSELF NOT FROM REPORTER,SO HE CAN SEE THE REAL PICTURE WHEN TIME COMES TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT SITUATION. HE IS A CM AND ALL CM’S VIEWS ARE IMPORTANT WHEN NATIONAL POLICIES ARE IMPLEMENTED TO FIGHT TERRORISM. HE IS RIGHT,INDIA NEEDS TO BRING THIS AT THE INTERNATIONAL TABLE TO GET HELP.IT’S NOT ONLY MUMBAI PROBLEM,IT’S NATION AS WELL AS WORLD’S PROBLEM.
November 29th, 2008 at 4:21 am
CM Mr.N.Modi has been critisized by the news channels due to this act. Being a gujju, I expected NM should have acted in a more matured way and respected the request of Vilasrao Deshmukh, who has given the briefing in the new channel that “we had already told Mr.Modi not to visit the ’site’, as we told to PM Manmohan Singh”. NM did 2 wrong things in one day, first claiming, the terrorist were did not come from Gujarat, and the next he gave speech at the ’site’. What should we draw from this Mr. CM? Have you ever thought that how we are living in Gujarat? We (Amdavidis) were more terrified than the Mumbikar’s . Did you safeguard us or just want to extended you boundry?
November 29th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
If Narendra Modi was prime minister of our country we would have not seen these days………No one pakistani dare to enter our Beloved Hindustan and try to touch any Indian…People please open your eyes and please please vote for BJP next time otherwise Our india will be like Kashmir where bomm blast happens every two three days…
November 29th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
This is not polotics but any of our relatives passing away we need to go there home and give them condolences.Modiji did same thing.
Jay Jay Garvi Gujarat Vande Mataram.
November 29th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hey guys, before you ritisized shri Narendra Modi, please understand your limitation. we are not able to give up any thing belong to us. we just browsing news in some spare time. rest of time we are busy in our own activites.
how can you comment whether Narendra modi is right or wrong? if we people are so intelligent that by spending 30 min on internet we feel that we analyze every thing of india!!!!
Shri Narendra Modi is full time devoted to india. he is waking up at 4-5 am. you don’t know how hard he is working..
he has better analysis of india and indian people then any other from us.. what ever he is doing must be right. we don’t have to think.
and Shri moid is well know for doing multi purpose work. in his this visit he must have done lot more analysis.
and if you want to control terrerist you can not by just setting in your AC cabin. you must have to study every thing where the live incident is going on. our media are not that mature to give right direction of situation.
By visiting this on ground zero shri Modi must have analyze what kind of limitation we have or what kind of managment requir to takle this kind of thing and how to prevent terrerist attack for future..
so, please don’t critisize to shri modi.. better you critisize this congress who in his 60 year of rule they did nothing for india pride. They are just like mogual who intrest was how to rule and make money… look at the state where congress has rule long time. . also give me a single thing which congress did good in their last 5 year rule.
forget about nuclear deal. it was initiated by vajpai govt.
November 30th, 2008 at 4:52 am
‘Shocked’ PM forgets his terrible record
Kanchan Gupta
The Pioneer
Nov. 30, 2008
The Congress believes, yes it really does, that its leaders alone have the right to ‘politicise’ national security while others should treat it as a ‘national issue’ above partisan politics. So, the Congress has been prompt in berating the BJP for suggesting that the pusillanimous UPA Government is to blame for the repeated terrorist strikes and the attendant death, destruction and devastation across the country. The 60-hour siege of Mumbai by fidayeen is the latest instance of India suffering yet another grievous blow at the hands of jihadis for whom slaughtering innocent people is the highest tribute to their faith. But after reprimanding the BJP for criticising the Government and thus ‘politicising’ terrorism, the Congress has had no compunctions about ‘politicising’ the grief and misery inflicted by mass murderers. On Saturday, the Congress issued a full-page advertisement in its favourite newspaper, listing the various terrorist strikes during the NDA years, casually mentioning the fidayeen attacks in Mumbai, saluting the security personnel killed in these incidents, and then preachily declaring that terrorism is a “national issue, not a political game”. The purpose was to influence people in Delhi hours before they stepped out of their homes to cast their votes in Saturday’s Assembly election.
The advertisement raises two issues, both related to political morality and ethics, which are alien to the Congress and its amoral and unethical leaders. First, according to this advertisement, there have been no terrorist attacks in India between the audacious strike on the Red Fort on December 22, 2000, and the November 26, 2008 assault on Mumbai. This, as every Indian knows, is a blatant lie. I have before me a list of terrorist attacks ever since the present impotent regime headed by an effete Prime Minister took charge of this country’s affairs after a scrambled election result helped the Congress to regain power at the Centre in the summer of 2004. The first attack was on August 16, 2004. The latest was on November 26, 2008. In between we have had terrorists visiting Delhi twice, raiding the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya, attacking Sankat Mochan temple in Varanasi, blowing up commuter trains in Mumbai, killing people at an amphitheatre in Hyderabad, blowing up bogies of the Samjhauta Express, and setting off bombs in Jaipur, Ahmedabad and Assam. According to the propagandists of the Congress, none of this has happened!
The second issue raised by Saturday’s advertisement is about the Congress saluting the security personnel who have laid down their lives while fighting terrorists and protecting the nation. If any value is to be attached to the advertisement, we must conclude that the Congress is reluctant to salute Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma of Delhi Police who, like Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad chief Hemant Karkare, was shot dead by terrorists. This is because the Congress wanted to send out, ever so slyly, a message to Muslim voters in Jamia Nagar for whom MC Sharma is not a hero but a villain because he dared raid a terrorist hideout in their locality. We must also presume, since there is no evidence to the contrary, that the advertisement was endorsed, if not cleared, by the Prime Minister. This speaks volumes about the integrity quotient of a man whose honesty, as claimed by his admirers, admittedly a rapidly disappearing exotic breed, is beyond reproach. Perhaps the Prime Minister needs to be reminded that only cowards take recourse to lies to cover up their failures.
Meanwhile, we had the occasion to hear the Prime Minister address a shaken nation 24 hours after the siege of Mumbai began. In his by now familiar laboured style, he expressed his “shock” at “the dastardly terror attacks. “I strongly condemn these acts of senseless violence,” he added. So what’s new? “I share the shock and distress of all those affected by these blasts,” the Prime Minister said on October 29, 2005, after the bombings in Delhi on Dhanteras. He was “shocked” on March 7, 2006, after the Sankat Mochan temple bombing. On July 12, 2006, he did not quite say that he was ’shocked’ by the Mumbai commuter train bombings, but he did say, “No one can make India kneel” and promised that his “Government will do whatever is required” to deal with terrorism. On February 19, 2007, the Prime Minister was more than ’shocked’ by the Samjhauta Express bombings — he was “anguished” and promised the “culprits will be caught”. On hearing about the serial bombings in Jaipur on May 13, 2008, the Prime Minister was again “shocked” and condemned “this dastardly attack”. On July 28, 2008, after visiting Ahmedabad following the serial bombings, he took care to mention that he accompanied Ms Sonia Gandhi before expressing “solidarity with the people of Gujarat”. On September 13, 2008, he “condemned the serial blasts in Delhi”; a month-and-a-half later, on October 30, 2008, he “strongly condemned” the Assam bombings.
The Prime Minister now mocks at the victims of terrorism and seeks to fool the people of this country by declaring, “We are not prepared to countenance a situation in which the safety and security of our citizens can be violated with impunity by terrorists… We will take the strongest possible measures to ensure that there is no repetition of such terrorist attacks.” Having countenanced repeated terrorist attacks, which the Congress now brazenly pretends never took place, and silently witnessed the safety and security of our citizens being violated with impunity by terrorists, the Prime Minister now expects the people to believe that he shall join battle with the merchants of death. To prove that he means business, he had his Government, such as it is, to put out the bogus claim that he had summoned the Director-General of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence and the Pakistani Government had meekly conceded his demand. In an interview to Karan Thapar for his television show, Devil’s Advocate, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari has rubbished this claim. According to Mr Zardari, the Prime Minister, in a telephonic talk with him on Friday, had requested for sending a ‘director’ — a mid-level bureaucrat in the official hierarchy. “There was a miscommunication… We had announced that a director will come from my side… That is what was requested by the Prime Minister and that is what we agreed,” Mr Zardari said.
That the Prime Minister, after all his bluster, should settle for talks with a director of the Pakistan Government so as to “take the strongest possible measures to ensure that there is no repetition of such terrorist acts” is a measure of his true intention.